Latest Personal Auto Headlines

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Texas Uber Drivers Victimized by Data Breach Receive $4.2M

Oct 26 2022 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that his office has completed its distribution of $4.2 million in redress payments to approximately 42,000 Texans whose personal information was compromised in a 2016 data breach...

Full Self-Driving Won’t Be Approved For Teslas This Year: Musk

Oct 24 2022 // Tesla Inc.’s advanced driver assistant software won’t gain regulatory approval in 2022, CEO Elon Musk said in remarks last week, which indicate the company is not yet able to satisfy authorities that its cars...

7 Steps to Combat the Rising Threat of CPC Theft for drivers and fleet carriers

Oct 24 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Recently, 24 commercial trucks were rendered useless at an auction house in Pennsylvania when the Common Powertrain Controller (CPC) modules were stolen from...

Washington Selects Operator for Rideshare Driver Resource Center

Oct 24 2022 // The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries announced an agreement with the Drivers Union to create a Drivers Resource Center.The center will support drivers who provide ride services for passengers through a...

Lawsuit Filed Against Wisconsin State Senator in Fatal Car Crash

Oct 19 2022 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The father of a 5-year-old girl who died in a car crash involving Democratic Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the lawmaker.The lawsuit was filed Friday...

Many Americans Apprehensive About Self-Driving Cars: Study

Oct 17 2022 // The majority of Americans (76%) say they would feel less safe driving or riding in cars with self-driving features. Similarly, 73% of people would feel less safe knowing others on the road are traveling in cars with...

New Data Suggests Dangerous Driving Trend Is Slowing, Slightly

Oct 13 2022 // Preliminary traffic data provides some hope that a rash of unsafe driving habits spawned by traffic-free roads during COVID-19 business shutdowns is beginning to abate.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...

Many Americans Apprehensive About Self-Driving Cars: Study

Sep 28 2022 // The majority of Americans (76%) say they would feel less safe driving or riding in cars with self-driving features. Similarly, 73% of people would feel less safe knowing others on the road are traveling in cars with...

New York Bus Driver Pleads Guilty to $30K Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Sep 28 2022 // A New York bus driver faces sentencing for fraudulently collecting more than $30,000 in workers’ compensation wage indemnity benefits by falsely claiming that she was unable to work as a result of a disability,...

Truck Driver Had Heart Attack, but Accident Still Compensable in North Carolina

Sep 23 2022 // Workers’ compensation carriers in North Carolina continue to be bound by a 44-year-old presumption that a death during work duties is work-related, even when a doctor testifies that a heart condition was the cause of...

Tesla Sued by Drivers Over Alleged False Autopilot, Full Self-Driving Claims

Sep 15 2022 // Tesla Inc. was sued on Wednesday in a proposed class action accusing Elon Musk’s electric car company of misleading the public by falsely advertising its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features.The complaint accused...

Repeal of Massachusetts Immigrant Driver’s License Qualifies for November Ballot

Sep 14 2022 // Massachusetts voters will get the chance to decide whether the state should reject a new law allowing immigrants in the country illegally to obtain state driver’s licenses.The secretary of the commonwealth’s...

Uber Pays New Jersey Back Taxes of $100M Over Driver Employment Classification

Sep 13 2022 // Uber Technologies Inc. said on Monday it back-paid New Jersey $100 million in unemployment taxes over classifying drivers as contractors, but added that it did not agree with the state’s view that drivers were...

Brink’s Driver Was Asleep During California Jewelry Heist, Lawsuit Says

Aug 25 2022 // One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars worth of...

3 Indiana State Students Killed in Car Crash

Aug 23 2022 // Two freshman members of the Indiana State University football team were among the three students who were killed in a weekend crash, officials said Monday.Two other football team members who were injured in the crash were...

Georgia Boat Driver Indicted on Homicide Charges After Deadly Memorial Day Crash

Aug 18 2022 // A Georgia man was indicted on homicide charges Wednesday, after a Memorial Day weekend boat collision that killed five people. Mark Stegall was indicted on 10 counts of first-degree homicide by a vessel, USA Today...

Car Crash Into Virginia Pub Injures More Than a Dozen People, 2 Critically

Aug 15 2022 // Two people remained in critical condition on Saturday among the more than a dozen who were injured after a vehicle crashed into a northern Virginia pub and restaurant, according to authorities.The crash at the...

California Insurance Commissioner: Mercury Steered ‘Good Drivers’ Toward Higher-Priced

Aug 15 2022 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a legal action in early August against Mercury Insurance for reportedly violating consumer protection laws, including selling Mercury’s highest-priced policy...

Jury Acquits Truck Driver in 2019 New Hampshire Crash That Killed 7 Motorcyclists

Aug 11 2022 // A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in a horrific head-on collision in northern New Hampshire that exposed fatal flaws in the processing of license revocations...

Truck Driver Reaches Agreement in Maine Fatal Accident Caused by Dislodged Tire

Aug 3 2022 // A truck driver is expected to accept responsibility for causing the death of a state police detective who was struck by a dislodged tire as he was assisting a driver alongside Interstate 95.Scott Willett, 55, of Patten,...